Angela Dimitrakaki

writer and lecturer, Edinburgh/Athens

Angela Dimitrakaki is a writer and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art
History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Dimitrikaki’s
academic research focuses on the following areas: feminist and Marxist
methodologies in art history; art and curating in relation to labour and
production (often as regards gender); art in the social realities of post-1989
Europe; lens-based media, the video essay, and post-documentary aesthetics; the
emergence of biopolitical paradigms in contemporary art; curatorial history and
theory; and the resurgence of fascism in post-2008 societies. Her books
include: ECONOMY: Art, Production and the Subject in the 21st Century (co-edited
with Kirsten Lloyd, 2015); Gender, ArtWork and the Global Imperative:
A Materialist Feminist Critique (2013); Politics in a Glass
Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (co-edited
with Lara Perry) (2013); and, in her native Greek, Art and
Globalisation: From the Postmodern Sign to the Biopolitical Arena (2013).
Dimitrakaki lives and works in Edinburgh and Athens. [Last updated 2016]

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